Patrick O'Brian
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| Title | : | The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin #8) |
| Author | : | Patrick O'Brian |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | January 17th 1992 by W. W. Norton Company (first published January 15th 1981) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure |
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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.Describe Books Toward The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin #8)
| Original Title: | The Ionian Mission |
| ISBN: | 0393308219 (ISBN13: 9780393308211) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Aubrey & Maturin #8 |
| Characters: | Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin |
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What I wrote in my LJ while I was reading it:So I started reading The Ionian Mission last night. 50 Pages in.* Stephen and Diana's married life cracked me up / endeared me / slightly disgusted me (pancreas in the bedside cabinet? ew!)* I doubt whether I could live with Stephen... or Diana for that matter.* Poor Jagiello having to deal with so many fawning women. And then jumps up like a pup when Stephen enters the room. (dammit I AM one of those fawning women.)* Diana is pregnant! whoooo. Or mayThe eighth in the adventures of Captain Aubrey and Dr.Maturin. After a peak into their respective home lives (Maturin's is my particular favorite: he and Diana have homes of their own because their lives are so different--plus he needs privacy for all his intelligence work--but he visits often for shared breakfast in bed and dinner parties), they ship off to support the blockade against the French. It's a long, boring period for them, made more troubling by the leadership. One of Aubrey's old
Political intrigue in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars as seen through the eyes of a Royal Navy captain. The Ionian Mission is yet another strong showing in the long Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Our hero British naval officer Captain Jack Aubrey needs to get out of Dodge and takes a boring blockade assignment that turns into something a bit more touchy in the diplomatic line. Very volatile politics indeed!Intrigue simmers in the background. A double-cross heats things up
A novel without an ending. In the recent books PO has a habit of just ending the story around 330 pages regardless of plot.
Seriously, these books are like crack. Some choice terms and quotes (defs mostly from King's invaluable A Sea of Words):Wordsfearnaught screen: thick felt used to cover hatches during battle.felucca (n): a small Spanish sailing vessel, but also a kind of fishing boat formerly used in the SF Bay Area.houario (n): "A French lug-rigged boat of the chasse-marée type," according to King.levinflash (n): lightning flash. "Levin" is apparently an archaic term for lightning, from Middle English.mastic
Captain Jack Aubrey is back in command of a ship and joins the squadron blockading the French harbor of Toulon. Stephen Maturin, naturalist, physician, and intelligence agent is busy with all his occupations. Competition is fierce among the onboard poets, and Stephen meets Mr Graham, a professor of moral philosophy and a man of many talents, and instructs him on naval lore. He also befriends Mr Martin, a parson and amateur naturalist. Admiral Harte reappears along with former midshipman
Having lately read six books in the Aubrey-Maturin series in a row I can compare it to nothing so much as binge-watching a really good TV series on Netflix. That being said this volume is perhaps the weakest Ive read thus far (not counting book one which was a real stumbling block for me way back when). It is by no means bad, but simply not quite up to par (IMHO) when compared to the previous ones Ive read to this point. OBrian does, however, manage to switch things up a bit by showing us
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